Histories

A cruel joke was practised by a man, whose name, as he is still living, we will not give in full, but his initials only, which are B.P.. It was when Mr. THOMAS was Pastor, and when he was an infirm old man. In the passage from the house to the Chapel there is a trap door which covers the well or cistern in which the initiatory process of baptism is performed and by incessant ringing the bell after he had opened the trap door he induced Mr THOMAS who had retired to rest to get up to go into the chapel; when, holding the candle straight before him and looking up, the old gentleman fell into the trap set for him, he went plump into the well, in his night-shirt.
On another occasion, the same wag carried a young donkey into the pulpit, putting his forelegs over the cushion, and by again ringing the bell brought Mr. THOMAS in to look at it.